List of craters on Mercury

This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury).<ref name="Gazetteer-Mercury-Craterlist" /> Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers, artists and composers. According to the rules by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, all new craters must be named after an artist that was famous for more than fifty years, and dead for more than three years, before the date they are named.<ref name=Ritzel/> Craters larger than 250 km in diameter are referred to as "basins" (also see Template:Section link).<ref>H-7 text_all.word</ref><ref name="Gazetteer-Categories" />

Template:As of, there are 414 named Mercurian craters,<ref name="Gazetteer-Mercury-Craterlist" /> a small fraction of the total number of named Solar System craters, most of which are lunar, Martian and Venerian craters.<ref name="Gazetteer-Moon-Craterlist" /><ref name="Gazetteer-Mars-Craterlist" /><ref name="Gazetteer-Venus-Craterlist" />Template:Efn

Other, non-planetary bodies with numerous named craters include Callisto (141), Ganymede (131), Rhea (128), Vesta (90), Ceres (90), Dione (73), Iapetus (58), Enceladus (53), Tethys (50) and Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System.

Map of named mercury craters Template:As of

A

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Abedin	Template:Coord	116.23	2009	Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter	Template:WGPSN
Abu Nuwas	Template:Coord	117	1976	Abu Nuwas, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Africanus Horton	Template:Coord	140	1976	Africanus Horton, Sierra Leonean writer	Template:WGPSN
Ahmad Baba	Template:Coord	126	1979	Ahmad Baba al Massufi, West African writer	Template:WGPSN
Ailey	Template:Coord	23	2012	Alvin Ailey, American choreographer	Template:WGPSN
Aksakov	Template:Coord	174	2012	Sergey Aksakov, Russian author	Template:WGPSN
Akutagawa	Template:Coord	106	2015	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Al-Akhtal	Template:Coord	94.29	1985	Akhtal, Arab poet	Template:WGPSN
Alencar	Template:Coord	106	1979	José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist	Template:WGPSN
Al-Hamadhani	Template:Coord	164	1979	Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani, Arab writer	Template:WGPSN
Al-Jāhiz	Template:Coord	83	1976	Al-Jahiz, Arab author	Template:WGPSN
Alver	Template:Coord	151	2013	Betti Alver, Estonian poet	Template:WGPSN
Amaral	Template:Coord	105	2008	Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian artist	Template:WGPSN
Amru Al-Qays	Template:Coord	47	1976	Imru Al-Qays Ibn Hujr, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Andal	Template:Coord	109	1976	Aandaal, Tamil writer	Template:WGPSN
Aneirin	Template:Coord	467	2014	Aneirin, Welsh poet (6th century)	Template:WGPSN
Angelou	Template:Coord	18	2019	Maya Angelou, American author and poet	Template:WGPSN
Anguissola	Template:Coord	35	2017	Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Anyte	Template:Coord	20	2017	Anyte of Tegea, Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Apollodorus	Template:Coord	41	2008	Apollodorus of Damascus, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Aristoxenus	Template:Coord	52	1979	Aristoxenus, Ancient Greek writer	Template:WGPSN
Asawa	Template:Coord	130	2024	Ruth Aiko Asawa, Japanese-American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Aśvaghoṣa	Template:Coord	88	1976	Aśvaghoṣa, Sanskrit, poet	Template:WGPSN
Atget	Template:Coord	100	2008	Eugène Atget, French photographer	Template:WGPSN

B

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Bach	Template:Coord	214.29	1976	Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bagryana	Template:Coord	101	2015	Elisaveta Bagryana, Bulgarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Balagtas	Template:Coord	104	1976	Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet	Template:WGPSN
Balanchine	Template:Coord	38	2012	George Balanchine, Georgian choreographer	Template:WGPSN
Baranauskas	Template:Coord	36	2015	Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Barney	Template:Coord	29	2013	Natalie Clifford Barney, American-French playwright, poet, and novelist	Template:WGPSN
Balzac	Template:Coord	67	1976	Honoré de Balzac, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Bartók	Template:Coord	118	1979	Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer	Template:WGPSN
Barma	Template:Coord	123	1982	Postnik "Barma" Yakovlev, Russian architect	Template:WGPSN
Bashō	Template:Coord	75	1979	Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Bechet	Template:Coord	17.6	2013	Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician and composer	Template:WGPSN
Beckett	Template:Coord	60	2008	Clarice Beckett, Australian painter	Template:WGPSN
Beethoven	Template:Coord	630	1976	Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bek	Template:Coord	32	2010	Bek, Egyptian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Belinskij	Template:Coord	70.67	1985	Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic	Template:WGPSN
Bellini	Template:Coord	45	2019	Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Bello	Template:Coord	139	1976	Andrés Bello, Venezuelan writer	Template:WGPSN
Benoit	Template:Coord	40	2009	Rigaud Benoit, Haitian artist	Template:WGPSN
Berkel	Template:Coord	23	2009	Sabri Berkel, Turkish painter	Template:WGPSN
Berlioz	Template:Coord	31.44	2013	Hector Berlioz, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Bernini	Template:Coord	168.13	1976	Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Berry	Template:Coord	25	2020	Chuck Berry, American singer and songwriter	Template:WGPSN
Bilokur	Template:Coord	67	2024	Kateryna Bilokur, Ukrainian painter	Template:WGPSN
Bjornson	Template:Coord	75.93	1985	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian poet	Template:WGPSN
Boccaccio	Template:Coord	151.95	1976	Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Boethius	Template:Coord	114	1976	Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher	Template:WGPSN
Botticelli	Template:Coord	136.35	1979	Sandro Botticelli, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Boznańska	Template:Coord	72	2015	Olga Boznańska, Polish painter	Template:WGPSN
Brahms	Template:Coord	100	1979	Johannes Brahms, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Bramante	Template:Coord	156	1976	Donato Bramante, Italian architect	Template:WGPSN
Brontë	Template:Coord	68	1976	The Brontë family, English writers and artists	Template:WGPSN
Brooks	Template:Coord	34	2015	Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and novelist	Template:WGPSN
Bruegel	Template:Coord	72	1985	Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter	Template:WGPSN
Brunelleschi	Template:Coord	128.57	1976	Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect	Template:WGPSN
Bunin	Template:Coord	37	2019	Ivan Bunin, Russian author	Template:WGPSN
Burke	Template:Coord	28.5	2015	Billie Burke, American actress	Template:WGPSN
Burns	Template:Coord	43	1985	Robert Burns, Scottish poet	Template:WGPSN
Byron	Template:Coord	106.58	1976	Lord Byron, English poet	Template:WGPSN

C

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Calder	Template:Coord	24	2013	Alexander Calder, American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Callicrates	Template:Coord	68	1976	Kallicrates, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Calvino	Template:Coord	67	2009	Italo Calvino, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Camões	Template:Coord	70	1976	Luís de Camões, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Canova	Template:Coord	46	2018	Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Capote	Template:Coord	88	2013	Truman Capote, American Author	Template:WGPSN
Caravaggio	Template:Coord	185	2013	Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Carducci	Template:Coord	108.19	1976	Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet	Template:WGPSN
Carleton	Template:Coord	177	2018	William Carleton, Irish writer	Template:WGPSN
Carolan	Template:Coord	24.34	2015	Turlough Carolan, Irish composer and performer	Template:WGPSN
Caruso	Template:Coord	31	2013	Enrico Caruso, Italian singer	Template:WGPSN
Carvalho	Template:Coord	90		Beth Carvalho, Brazilian musician	Template:WGPSN
Castiglione	Template:Coord	80	2015	Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Catullus	Template:Coord	100.2	2012	Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Cervantes	Template:Coord	213.16	1976	Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer	Template:WGPSN
Cézanne	Template:Coord	67	1985	Paul Cézanne, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Chaikovskij	Template:Coord	171	1976	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Chao Meng-Fu	Template:Coord	140.73	1976	Zhao Mengfu, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Chekhov	Template:Coord	194	1976	Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and writer	Template:WGPSN
Chesterton	Template:Coord	37.23	2012	Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author	Template:WGPSN
[[Chiang KTemplate:Wg-aposui (crater)|Chiang KTemplate:Wg-aposui]]	Template:Coord	41	1976	Jiang Kui, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
[[Chŏng ChTemplate:Hamzaŏl (crater)|Chŏng ChTemplate:Hamzaŏl]]	Template:Coord	143	1979	Chŏng Ch'ŏl, Korean poet	Template:WGPSN
Chopin	Template:Coord	131	1976	Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer	Template:WGPSN
Chu Ta	Template:Coord	100	1976	Zhu Da, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Codesido	Template:Coord	64	2024	Julia Codesido, Peruvian painter	Template:WGPSN
Coleridge	Template:Coord	112	1976	Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Copland	Template:Coord	208	2010	Aaron Copland, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Copley	Template:Coord	34	1976	John Singleton Copley, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Couperin	Template:Coord	80	1979	The Couperin family of French musicians	Template:WGPSN
Cunningham	Template:Coord	37	2008	Imogen Cunningham, American photographer	Template:WGPSN

D

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Dali	Template:Coord	176	2008	Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Damer	Template:Coord	60	2013	Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Darío	Template:Coord	151	1976	Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer	Template:WGPSN
David	Template:Coord	23	2013	Jacques-Louis David, French painter	Template:WGPSN
de Graft	Template:Coord	68	2009	Joe de Graft, Ghanaian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Debussy	Template:Coord	81	2010	Claude Debussy, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Degas	Template:Coord	54	1979	Edgar Degas, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Delacroix	Template:Coord	158	1979	Eugène Delacroix, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Derain	Template:Coord	167	2009	André Derain, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Derzhavin	Template:Coord	156	1979	Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN
Despréz	Template:Coord	47.05	1979	Josquin des Prez, Franco-Flemish composer	Template:WGPSN
Dickens	Template:Coord	77.31	1976	Charles Dickens, English novelist	Template:WGPSN
Disney	Template:Coord	113	2012	Walt Disney, American animator	Template:WGPSN
Dominici	Template:Coord	20	2010	Maria de Dominici, Maltese painter	Template:WGPSN
Donelaitis	Template:Coord	85	2013	Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Donne	Template:Coord	86	1976	John Donne, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Dostoevskij	Template:Coord	430.06	1979	Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist	Template:WGPSN
Dowland	Template:Coord	158	1979	John Dowland, English composer	Template:WGPSN
Driscoll	Template:Coord	30	2015	Clara Driscoll, American artist	Template:WGPSN
Duccio	Template:Coord	132	2013	Duccio di Buoninsegna, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Du Fu	Template:Coord	33	2015	Du Fu, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Dürer	Template:Coord	195	1976	Albrecht Dürer, German artist	Template:WGPSN
Dvorák	Template:Coord	75	1976	Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN

E

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Eastman	Template:Coord	67	2009	Charles Eastman, Sioux author	Template:WGPSN
Echegaray	Template:Coord	63	1985	José Echegaray, Spanish dramatist	Template:WGPSN
Egonu	Template:Coord	25	2012	Uzo Egonu, Nigerian artist	Template:WGPSN
Eitoku	Template:Coord	101	1976	Kanō Eitoku, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
El Husseini	Template:Coord	87	2024	Jumana El Husseini, Palestinian painter and sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Ellington	Template:Coord	216	2012	Duke Ellington, American musician	Template:WGPSN
Eminescu	Template:Coord	129	2008	Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet	Template:WGPSN
Enheduanna	Template:Coord	105	2015	Enheduanna, Sumerian poet	Template:WGPSN
Enwonwu	Template:Coord	38	2008	Ben Enwonwu, Nigerian painter	Template:WGPSN
Ensor	Template:Coord	24.92	2013	James Ensor, Belgian painter	Template:WGPSN
Equiano	Template:Coord	102	1976	Olaudah Equiano, Benin writer	Template:WGPSN
Erté	Template:Coord	48.5	2013	Erté, Russian-born French artist	Template:WGPSN

F

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Faulkner	Template:Coord	168	2012	William Faulkner, American author	Template:WGPSN
Fet	Template:Coord	79	1985	Afanasy Fet, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN
Firdousi	Template:Coord	98	2010	Hakim Ferdowsi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Flaubert	Template:Coord	95	1985	Gustave Flaubert, French author	Template:WGPSN
Flaiano	Template:Coord	43	2013	Ennio Flaiano, Italian author	Template:WGPSN
Fonteyn	Template:Coord	29	2012	Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer	Template:WGPSN
Freire	Template:Coord	51	2024	María Freire, Uruguayan painter	Template:WGPSN
Fuller	Template:Coord	26.97	2013	Richard Buckminster Fuller, American engineer and architect	Template:WGPSN
Futabatei	Template:Coord	57	1976	Futabatei Shimei, Japanese author	Template:WGPSN

G

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Gainsborough	Template:Coord	95	1985	Thomas Gainsborough, English painter	Template:WGPSN
Gaudí	Template:Coord	81	2012	Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Spanish Catalan architect	Template:WGPSN
Gauguin	Template:Coord	70	1979	Paul Gauguin, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Geddes	Template:Coord	84	2010	Wilhelmina Geddes, Irish stained glass artist	Template:WGPSN
Ghiberti	Template:Coord	110	1976	Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Giambologna	Template:Coord	69	2013	Giambologna, Flemish sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Gibran	Template:Coord	106	2009	Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American poet and artist	Template:WGPSN
Giotto	Template:Coord	144	1976	Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Glinka	Template:Coord	89	2008	Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Gluck	Template:Coord	100	1979	Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Goethe	Template:Coord	317.17	1979	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer	Template:WGPSN
Gogol	Template:Coord	79	1985	Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Gordimer	Template:Coord	58	2019	Nadine Gordimer, South African writer	Template:WGPSN
Goya	Template:Coord	138	1976	Francisco Goya, Spanish artist	Template:WGPSN
Grainger	Template:Coord	113	2012	Percy Grainger, Australian composer	Template:WGPSN
Grieg	Template:Coord	59	1985	Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer	Template:WGPSN
Grotell	Template:Coord	48.25	2012	Maija Grotell, Finnish and American ceramist	Template:WGPSN
Guido d'Arezzo	Template:Coord	58	1976	Guido of Arezzo, Italian music theorist	Template:WGPSN

H

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Hafiz	Template:Coord	280	2014	Hafiz of Shiraz, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Halim	Template:Coord	44	2024	Tahia Halim, Egyptian painter	Template:WGPSN
Hals	Template:Coord	93	1985	Frans Hals, Dutch painter	Template:WGPSN
Han Kan	Template:Coord	50	1985	Han Gan, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Handel	Template:Coord	138	1976	George Frideric Handel, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Harunobu	Template:Coord	107	1976	Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Hauptmann	Template:Coord	118	1985	Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright	Template:WGPSN
Hawthorne	Template:Coord	120	1979	Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Haydn	Template:Coord	251	1976	Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Heaney	Template:Coord	125	2017	Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright	Template:WGPSN
Heine	Template:Coord	73	1979	Heinrich Heine, German poet	Template:WGPSN
Hemingway	Template:Coord	126	2009	Ernest Hemingway, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Henri	Template:Coord	163.8	2012	Robert Henri, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Hesiod	Template:Coord	101	1976	Hesiod, Ancient Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Hiroshige	Template:Coord	138	1976	Andō Hiroshige, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Hitomaro	Template:Coord	105	1976	Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Hodgkins	Template:Coord	19	2009	Frances Hodgkins, New Zealand painter	Template:WGPSN
Hokusai	Template:Coord	114	2010	Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Holbein	Template:Coord	115	1979	Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist	Template:WGPSN
Holberg	Template:Coord	64	1976	Ludvig Holberg, Danish writer	Template:WGPSN
Holst	Template:Coord	170	2012	Gustav Holst, British composer	Template:WGPSN
Homer	Template:Coord	319	1976	Homer Simpson, Character in The Simpsons	Template:WGPSN
Hopper	Template:Coord	36	2012	Edward Hopper, American painter	Template:WGPSN
Horace	Template:Coord	56	1976	Horace, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Hovnatanian	Template:Coord	34	2008	Hakob Hovnatanian, Armenian painter	Template:WGPSN
Hugo	Template:Coord	206	1979	Victor Hugo, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Hun Kal	Template:Coord	0.93	1976	'20' in the language of the Maya (serves as Mercury's a meridian reference point)	Template:WGPSN
Hurley	Template:Coord	67	2013	Frank Hurley, Australian photographer	Template:WGPSN

I

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ibsen	Template:Coord	159	1976	Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright	Template:WGPSN
Ictinus	Template:Coord	58.03	1976	Iktinos, Ancient Greek architect	Template:WGPSN
Imhotep	Template:Coord	159	1976	Imhotep, Ancient Egyptian architect	Template:WGPSN
Ives	Template:Coord	18	1979	Charles Ives, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Izquierdo	Template:Coord	174	2009	María Izquierdo, Mexican painter	Template:WGPSN

J

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Janáček	Template:Coord	47	1985	Leoš Janáček, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Jiménez	Template:Coord	27	2019	Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and author	Template:WGPSN
Jókai	Template:Coord	93	1979	Mór Jókai, Hungarian writer	Template:WGPSN
Jobim	Template:Coord	167	2015	Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer	Template:WGPSN
Joplin	Template:Coord	139	2012	Scott Joplin, American composer	Template:WGPSN
Josetsu	Template:Coord	30	2019	Taikō Josetsu, Japanese ink painter	Template:WGPSN
Judah Ha-Levi	Template:Coord	85	1976	Yehuda Halevi, Spanish-Jewish writer	Template:WGPSN

K

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Kandinsky	Template:Coord	60	2012	Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter	Template:WGPSN
Karsh	Template:Coord	58	2015	Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer	Template:WGPSN
Kālidāsā	Template:Coord	160	1976	Kālidāsa, Sanskrit writer	Template:WGPSN
Keats	Template:Coord	107.85	1976	John Keats, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Kenkō	Template:Coord	105	1976	Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Kerouac	Template:Coord	110	2015	Jack Kerouac, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Kertész	Template:Coord	32	2008	André Kertész, Hungarian photographer	Template:WGPSN
Khansa	Template:Coord	113	1976	Al-Khansa, Arabic poet	Template:WGPSN
Kipling	Template:Coord	164	2010	Rudyard Kipling, English author	Template:WGPSN
Kirby	Template:Coord	31	2019	Jack Kirby, American illustrator	Template:WGPSN
Kobro	Template:Coord	54	2012	Katarzyna Kobro, Polish sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Kofi	Template:Coord	136	2012	Vincent Kofi, Ghanaian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Komeda	Template:Coord	54	2012	Krzysztof Komeda, Polish composer	Template:WGPSN
Kōshō	Template:Coord	64	1985	Kōshō, Japanese sculptor	Template:WGPSN
[[Kuan Han-ChTemplate:Wg-aposing (crater)|Kuan Han-ChTemplate:Wg-aposing]]	Template:Coord	143	1979	Guan Hanqing, Chinese playwright	Template:WGPSN
Kuiper	Template:Coord	62	1976	Gerard Kuiper, American astronomer	Template:WGPSN
Kulthum	Template:Coord	31	2015	Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer	Template:WGPSN
Kunisada	Template:Coord	241.45	2009	Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese woodblock printmaker	Template:WGPSN
Kuniyoshi	Template:Coord	27	2014	Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese painter and printmaker	Template:WGPSN
Kurosawa	Template:Coord	152	1976	Kinko Kurosawa, Japanese musician	Template:WGPSN
Kyōsai	Template:Coord	39	2012	Kawanabe Kyōsai, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN

L

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Lange	Template:Coord	176.23	2009	Dorothea Lange, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Larrocha	Template:Coord	196	2013	Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist	Template:WGPSN
Laxness	Template:Coord	25.89	2013	Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer	Template:WGPSN
Le Guin	Template:Coord	61	2024	Ursula K. Le Guin, American author	Template:WGPSN
L'Engle	Template:Coord	62	2013	Madeleine L'Engle, American author	Template:WGPSN
Lennon	Template:Coord	95	2013	John Lennon, former Beatles member<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Template:WGPSN
Lennon-Picasso Basin	Template:Coord	1450	2018	John Lennon and Pablo Picasso	<ref>Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6.</ref>
Leopardi	Template:Coord	71.45	1976	Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer	Template:WGPSN
Lermontov	Template:Coord	166	1976	Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Lessing	Template:Coord	95	1985	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German dramatist	Template:WGPSN
[[Li ChTemplate:Wg-aposing-Chao (crater)|Li ChTemplate:Wg-aposing-Chao]]	Template:Coord	69	1976	Li Qingzhao, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Li Po	Template:Coord	126	1976	Li Bai, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
[[Liang KTemplate:Wg-aposai (crater)|Liang KTemplate:Wg-aposai]]	Template:Coord	145	1979	Liang Kai, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Lismer	Template:Coord	139.12	2012	Arthur Lismer, Canadian painter	Template:WGPSN
Liszt	Template:Coord	79	1985	Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer	Template:WGPSN
Lorde	Template:Coord	45	2022	Audre Lorde, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Lovecraft	Template:Coord	51.97	2013	H. P. Lovecraft, American author	Template:WGPSN
Lu Hsun	Template:Coord	96	1976	Lu Xun, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Lysippus	Template:Coord	155	1976	Lysippos, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN

M

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ma Chih-Yuan	Template:Coord	197	1976	Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese writer	Template:WGPSN
Machaut	Template:Coord	104	1976	Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer	Template:WGPSN
MacNicol	Template:Coord	42	2022	Bessie MacNicol, Scottish painter	Template:WGPSN
Magritte	Template:Coord	149	2012	René Magritte, Belgian painter	Template:WGPSN
Mahler	Template:Coord	104	1976	Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer	Template:WGPSN
Mansart	Template:Coord	84.97	1979	Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect	Template:WGPSN
Mansur	Template:Coord	95	1979	Ustad Mansur, Mughal artist	Template:WGPSN
March	Template:Coord	83	1979	Ausiàs March, Catalan poet	Template:WGPSN
Mark Twain	Template:Coord	142	1976	Mark Twain, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Martí	Template:Coord	69.48	1976	José Martí, Cuban writer	Template:WGPSN
Martins	Template:Coord	12.4	2019	Maria Martins, Brazilian sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Martial	Template:Coord	51	1979	Martial, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN
Matabei	Template:Coord	24	2009	Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Matisse	Template:Coord	189.04	1976	Henri Matisse, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Melville	Template:Coord	146	1976	Herman Melville, American novelist	Template:WGPSN
Mena	Template:Coord	15	1976	Juan de Mena, Spanish poet	Template:WGPSN
Mendelssohn	Template:Coord	291	2012	Felix Mendelssohn, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Mendes Pinto	Template:Coord	192	1976	Fernão Mendes Pinto, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Michelangelo	Template:Coord	229.71	1979	Michelangelo, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Mickiewicz	Template:Coord	103	1976	Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer	Template:WGPSN
Milton	Template:Coord	180.85	1976	John Milton, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Mistral	Template:Coord	102	1976	Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet	Template:WGPSN
Mofolo	Template:Coord	103	1976	Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer	Template:WGPSN
Molière	Template:Coord	139	1976	Molière, French playwright	Template:WGPSN
Monet	Template:Coord	203	1979	Claude Monet, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Monk	Template:Coord	12	2013	Thelonious Monk, American jazz musician	Template:WGPSN
Monteverdi	Template:Coord	134	1979	Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Moody	Template:Coord	83	2008	Ronald Moody, Jamaican painter	Template:WGPSN
Morrison	Template:Coord	35	2022	Toni Morrison; American author	Template:WGPSN
Mozart	Template:Coord	241	1976	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Munch	Template:Coord	57	2008	Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter	Template:WGPSN
Munkácsy	Template:Coord	193	2009	Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter	Template:WGPSN
Murasaki	Template:Coord	132	1976	Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Mussorgskij	Template:Coord	115	1979	Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Myron	Template:Coord	25	1979	Myron, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN

N

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Nabokov	Template:Coord	166	2012	Vladimir Nabokov, Russian and American writer	Template:WGPSN
Nairne	Template:Coord	56	2022	Carolina Nairne, Scottish songwriter	Template:WGPSN
Namatjira	Template:Coord	34	2015	Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist	Template:WGPSN
Nampeyo	Template:Coord	49	1976	Nampeyo, Hopi potter	Template:WGPSN
Navoi	Template:Coord	69	2008	Ali-Shir Nava'i, Uzbek poet	Template:WGPSN
Nāwahī	Template:Coord	38	2008	Joseph Nāwahī, Hawaiian painter	Template:WGPSN
Neruda	Template:Coord	112	2008	Jan Neruda, Czech poet and writer, and Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Nervo	Template:Coord	66	1979	Amado Nervo, Mexican poet	Template:WGPSN
Neumann	Template:Coord	122	1976	Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect	Template:WGPSN
Nizāmī	Template:Coord	77	1979	Nizami, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Nureyev	Template:Coord	16	2012	Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet and British ballet dancer	Template:WGPSN

O

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ōkyo	Template:Coord	66	1985	Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Oskison	Template:Coord	122	2008	John Milton Oskison, Cherokee author	Template:WGPSN
Ovid	Template:Coord	41	1976	Ovid, Roman poet	Template:WGPSN

P

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Pahinui	Template:Coord	54	2013	Gabby Pahinui, Hawaiian slack-key guitarist and singer	Template:WGPSN
Pasch	Template:Coord	37	2012	Ulrika Pasch, Swedish painter	Template:WGPSN
Petipa	Template:Coord	12	2012	Marius Petipa, French and Russian choreographer and dancer	Template:WGPSN
Petőfi	Template:Coord	61	2013	Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Petrarch	Template:Coord	167	1976	Petrarch, Italian poet	Template:WGPSN
Petronius	Template:Coord	36	2012	Petronius, Roman author	Template:WGPSN
Phidias	Template:Coord	168	1976	Phidias, Ancient Greek artist and architect	Template:WGPSN
Philoxenus	Template:Coord	87	1976	Philoxenus of Cythera, Ancient Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Piazzolla	Template:Coord	38	2024	Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian tango composer	Template:WGPSN
Picasso	Template:Coord	134	2010	Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Pigalle	Template:Coord	153	1976	Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Plath	Template:Coord	35	2015	Sylvia Plath, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Po Chü-I	Template:Coord	70	1976	Bai Juyi, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
Po Ya	Template:Coord	101	1976	Bo Ya, Chinese musician	Template:WGPSN
Poe	Template:Coord	77	2008	Edgar Allan Poe, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Polygnotus	Template:Coord	124	1976	Polygnotus, Ancient Greek painter	Template:WGPSN
Popova	Template:Coord	34	2012	Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and designer	Template:WGPSN
Praxiteles	Template:Coord	198	1979	Praxiteles, Ancient Greek sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Prokofiev	Template:Coord	112	2012	Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Proust	Template:Coord	145	1976	Marcel Proust, French novelist	Template:WGPSN
Puccini	Template:Coord	76	1976	Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Purcell	Template:Coord	87.67	1979	Henry Purcell, English composer	Template:WGPSN
Pushkin	Template:Coord	232	1976	Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet	Template:WGPSN

Q

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Qi Baishi	Template:Coord	15	2008	Qi Baishi, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN
Qiu Ying	Template:Coord	20	2012	Qiu Ying, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN

R

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Rabelais	Template:Coord	154	1976	François Rabelais, French writer	Template:WGPSN
Rachmaninoff	Template:Coord	305	2010	Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Raden Saleh	Template:Coord	23	2008	Raden Saleh, Javanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Raditladi	Template:Coord	258	2008	Leetile Disang Raditladi, Botswanan writer	Template:WGPSN
Rajnis	Template:Coord	80	1976	Rainis, Latvian writer	Template:WGPSN
Remarque	Template:Coord	25.9	2013	Erich Maria Remarque, German author	Template:WGPSN
Rameau	Template:Coord	58	1976	Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Raphael	Template:Coord	342	1976	Raphael, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Ravel	Template:Coord	78	1985	Maurice Ravel, French composer	Template:WGPSN
Rembrandt	Template:Coord	716	2009	Rembrandt, Dutch artist	Template:WGPSN
Renoir	Template:Coord	220	1976	Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Repin	Template:Coord	95	1976	Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian artist	Template:WGPSN
Riemenschneider	Template:Coord	183	1979	Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Rilke	Template:Coord	82	1976	Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet	Template:WGPSN
Rimbaud	Template:Coord	78	1985	Arthur Rimbaud, French poet	Template:WGPSN
Rikyū	Template:Coord	22.4	2013	Sen no Rikyū, Japanese tea master	Template:WGPSN
Rivera	Template:Coord	40	2015	Diego Rivera, Mexican painter	Template:WGPSN
Rizal	Template:Coord	64	2019	José Rizal, Filipino writer	Template:WGPSN
Rodin	Template:Coord	230	1976	Auguste Rodin, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Roerich	Template:Coord	111.67	2013	Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter	Template:WGPSN
Rubens	Template:Coord	158	1979	Peter Paul Rubens, French artist	Template:WGPSN
Rublev	Template:Coord	129	1976	Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter	Template:WGPSN
Rūdaki	Template:Coord	124	1976	Rudaki, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Rude	Template:Coord	68	1985	François Rude, French sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Rūmī	Template:Coord	75	1985	Mawlana Rumi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Rustaveli	Template:Coord	200	2012	Shota Rustaveli, Georgian poet	Template:WGPSN
Ruysch	Template:Coord	64	2013	Rachel Ruysch, Netherland painter	Template:WGPSN

S

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Sadī	Template:Coord	66.54	1976	Saadi, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Saikaku	Template:Coord	64	1979	Ihara Saikaku, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Sander	Template:Coord	47	2008	August Sander, German photographer	Template:WGPSN
Sanai	Template:Coord	490	2014	Sanai, Persian poet	Template:WGPSN
Sapkota	Template:Coord	27.4	2015	Mahananda Sapkota, Nepalese poet	Template:WGPSN
Sarmiento	Template:Coord	95	1979	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentinian writer	Template:WGPSN
Savage	Template:Coord	93	2013	Augusta Savage, American sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Sayat-Nova	Template:Coord	146	1979	Sayat-Nova, Armenian poet	Template:WGPSN
Scarlatti	Template:Coord	132	1979	Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composers	Template:WGPSN
Schoenberg	Template:Coord	28	1976	Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Schubert	Template:Coord	190	1976	Franz Schubert, Austrian composer	Template:WGPSN
Scopas	Template:Coord	83.16	1976	Scopas, Ancient Greek sculptor and architect	Template:WGPSN
Sei	Template:Coord	137	1976	Sei Shōnagon, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Seuss	Template:Coord	64	2012	Theodor Seuss Geisel, American author and cartoonist	Template:WGPSN
Shakespeare	Template:Coord	399	1979	William Shakespeare, English writer	Template:WGPSN
Shelley	Template:Coord	171	1979	Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet	Template:WGPSN
Sher-Gil	Template:Coord	77	2008	Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter	Template:WGPSN
Shevchenko	Template:Coord	143	1976	Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet	Template:WGPSN
Sholem Aleichem	Template:Coord	196	1979	Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish writer	Template:WGPSN
Sibelius	Template:Coord	94	1985	Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer	Template:WGPSN
Simonides	Template:Coord	87	1985	Simonides of Ceos, Greek poet	Template:WGPSN
Sinan	Template:Coord	134	1976	Mimar Sinan, Turkish architect	Template:WGPSN
Smetana	Template:Coord	191	1985	Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer	Template:WGPSN
Snorri	Template:Coord	21	1976	Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic poet	Template:WGPSN
Sophocles	Template:Coord	142	1976	Sophocles, Ancient Greek dramatist	Template:WGPSN
Sor Juana	Template:Coord	102	1979	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican writer	Template:WGPSN
Sōseki	Template:Coord	92	1985	Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Sōtatsu	Template:Coord	157	1976	Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Japanese artist	Template:WGPSN
Sousa	Template:Coord	138	2012	John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster and composer	Template:WGPSN
Spitteler	Template:Coord	67	1976	Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet	Template:WGPSN
Steichen	Template:Coord	196	2010	Edward Steichen, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Stevenson	Template:Coord	134	2012	Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author	Template:WGPSN
Stieglitz	Template:Coord	100	2012	Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer	Template:WGPSN
Strauss	Template:Coord	17	2019	Strauss family of musicians	Template:WGPSN
Stravinsky	Template:Coord	129	1979	Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer	Template:WGPSN
Strindberg	Template:Coord	189	1979	August Strindberg, Swedish writer	Template:WGPSN
Sullivan	Template:Coord	153.23	1976	Louis Sullivan, American architect	Template:WGPSN
Sūr Dās	Template:Coord	131	1979	Sur, Hindu, poet	Template:WGPSN
Surikov	Template:Coord	224	1979	Vasily Surikov, Russian artist	Template:WGPSN
Sveinsdóttir	Template:Coord	212.79	2008	Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic artist	Template:WGPSN

T

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Takanobu	Template:Coord	72	1985	Fujiwara no Takanobu, Japanese poet	Template:WGPSN
Takayoshi	Template:Coord	136	1979	Fujiwara no Takayoshi, Japanese painter	Template:WGPSN
Tansen	Template:Coord	27	1976	Tansen, Hindustani composer	Template:WGPSN
Thākur	Template:Coord	111	1976	Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer	Template:WGPSN
Theophanes	Template:Coord	46	1976	Theophanes the Greek, icon painter	Template:WGPSN
Thoreau	Template:Coord	72	1985	Henry David Thoreau, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Tintoretto	Template:Coord	94	1976	Tintoretto, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
Titian	Template:Coord	109	1976	Titian, Italian artist	Template:WGPSN
To Ngoc Van	Template:Coord	71	2009	To Ngoc Van, Vietnamese painter	Template:WGPSN
Tolkien	Template:Coord	50	2012	J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer	Template:WGPSN
Tolstoj	Template:Coord	355	1976	Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Travers	Template:Coord	164	2018	Pamela Lyndon Travers, British writer	Template:WGPSN
[[TsTemplate:Wg-aposai Wen-Chi (crater)|TsTemplate:Wg-aposai Wen-Chi]]	Template:Coord	124	1976	Cai Wenji, Chinese poet and composer	Template:WGPSN
[[TsTemplate:Wg-aposao Chan (crater)|TsTemplate:Wg-aposao Chan]]	Template:Coord	110	1976	Cao Xueqin, Chinese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Tsurayuki	Template:Coord	83	1976	Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer	Template:WGPSN
Tung Yüan	Template:Coord	60.46	1979	Dong Yuan, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Turgenev	Template:Coord	136	1979	Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer	Template:WGPSN
Tyagaraja	Template:Coord	97	1976	Tyāgarāja, Indian composer	Template:WGPSN
Tryggvadóttir	Template:Coord	31	2012	Nína Tryggvadóttir, Icelandic artist	Template:WGPSN

U

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Unkei	Template:Coord	121	1976	Unkei, Japanese sculptor	Template:WGPSN
Ustad Isa	Template:Coord	138	1979	Ustad Isa, architect	Template:WGPSN

V

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Vālmiki	Template:Coord	210	1976	Valmiki, Indian poet	Template:WGPSN
Van Dijck	Template:Coord	101.53	1979	Anthony van Dyck, Flemish artist	Template:WGPSN
Van Eyck	Template:Coord	271	1979	Jan van Eyck, Flemish artist	Template:WGPSN
Van Gogh	Template:Coord	99	1976	Vincent van Gogh, Dutch artist	Template:WGPSN
Varma	Template:Coord	30	2013	Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter	Template:WGPSN
Vazov	Template:Coord	33	2020	Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet	Template:WGPSN
Velázquez	Template:Coord	128	1979	Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter	Template:WGPSN
Verdi	Template:Coord	145	1979	Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Veronese	Template:Coord	45	2021	Paolo Veronese, Italian painter	Template:WGPSN
Vieira da Silva	Template:Coord	274	2013	Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French painter	Template:WGPSN
Villa-Lobos	Template:Coord	67	2015	Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer	Template:WGPSN
Vincente	Template:Coord	108	1979	Gil Vicente, Portuguese writer	Template:WGPSN
Vivaldi	Template:Coord	213	1976	Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer	Template:WGPSN
Vlaminck	Template:Coord	82	1985	Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter	Template:WGPSN
Vonnegut	Template:Coord	26.61	2017	Kurt Vonnegut, American writer	Template:WGPSN
Vyāsa	Template:Coord	297	1979	Vyasa, Indian poet	Template:WGPSN

W

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Wagner	Template:Coord	134	1976	Richard Wagner, German composer	Template:WGPSN
Wang Meng	Template:Coord	165	1976	Wang Meng, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN
Warhol	Template:Coord	91	2012	Andy Warhol, American artist	Template:WGPSN
Waters	Template:Coord	15	2012	Muddy Waters, American musician	Template:WGPSN
Wen Tianxiang	Template:Coord	166.42	2020	Wen Tianxiang, Chinese poet	Template:WGPSN
Wergeland	Template:Coord	42	1976	Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer	Template:WGPSN
Whitman	Template:Coord	64	1985	Walt Whitman, American poet	Template:WGPSN
Wren	Template:Coord	204	1979	Christopher Wren, English architect	Template:WGPSN
Wu Shujuan	Template:Coord	109	2024	Wu Shujuan, Chinese painter	Template:WGPSN

X

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Xiao Zhao	Template:Coord	24	2008	Xiao Zhao, Chinese artist	Template:WGPSN

Y

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Yamada	Template:Coord	17.1	2015	Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor	Template:WGPSN
Yeats	Template:Coord	92	1976	William Butler Yeats, Irish poet	Template:WGPSN
Yoshikawa	Template:Coord	30	2012	Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist	Template:WGPSN
Yun Sŏn-Do	Template:Coord	76	1976	Yun Sŏndo, Korean poet	Template:WGPSN

Z

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Zeami	Template:Coord	129	1976	Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese playwright	Template:WGPSN
Zola	Template:Coord	70	1979	Émile Zola, French novelist	Template:WGPSN

Terminology

As on the Moon and Mars, sequences of craters and basins of differing relative ages provide the best means of establishing stratigraphic order on Mercury.<ref name="h11.pdf">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Pohn, H. A., and Offield, T. W., 1970, Lunar crater morphology and relative-age determination of lunar geologic units—Part 1. Classification: in Geological Survey research 1970, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 700-C, p. C153–C162.</ref><ref>Stuart-Alexander, D. E., and Wilhelms, D. E., 1975, The Nectarian System, a new lunar time-stratigraphic unit: U.S. Geological Survey Journal of Research, v. 3, no. l, p. 53–58.</ref> Overlap relations among many large mercurian craters and basins are clearer than those on the Moon. Therefore, as this map shows, we can build up many local stratigraphic columns involving both crater or basin materials and nearby plains materials.

Over all of Mercury, the crispness of crater rims and the morphology of their walls, central peaks, ejecta deposits, and secondary-crater fields have undergone systematic changes with time. The youngest craters or basins in a local stratigraphic sequence have the sharpest, crispest appearance. The oldest craters consist only of shallow depressions with slightly raised, rounded rims, some incomplete. On this basis, five age categories of craters and basins have been mapped; the characteristics of each are listed in the explanation. In addition, secondary crater fields are preserved around proportionally far more craters and basins on Mercury than on the Moon or Mars, and are particularly useful in determining overlap relations and degree of modification.

Because only limited photographic evidence was available from Mariner 10Template:'s three flybys of the planet, these divisions are often tentative. The five crater groups, from youngest to oldest, are:

• c5: Fresh-appearing, sharp-rimmed, rayed craters. Highest albedo in map area; haloes and rays may extend many crater diameters from rim crests. Superposed on all other map units. Generally smaller and fewer than older craters.
• c4: Fresh but slightly modified craters—Similar in morphology to c5 craters but without bright haloes or rays; sharp rim crests; continuous ejecta blankets; very few superposed secondary craters. Floors consist of crater or smooth plains materials.
• c3: Modified craters—Rim crest continuous but slightly rounded and subdued. Ejecta blanket generally less extensive than those of younger craters of similar size. Superposed craters and rays common; smooth plains and intermediate plains materials cover floors of many craters. Central peaks more common than in c4 craters, probably because of larger average size of c3 craters.
• c2: Subdued craters—Low-rimmed, relatively shallow craters, many with discontinuous rim crests. Floors covered by smooth plains and intermediate plains materials. Crater density of ejecta blankets similar to that of intermediate plains material.
• c1 Degraded craters—Similar to c2 crater material but more deteriorated; many superposed craters.

See also

• List of geological features on Mercury
• List of quadrangles on Mercury

References

• Batson R.M., Russell J.F. (1994), Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2129 [1]
• Davies M.E., Dwornik S.E., Gault D.E., Strom R.G. (1978), Atlas of Mercury, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office [2]

External links

• USGS: Mercury nomenclature
• USGS: Mercury Nomenclature: Craters
• Atlas of Mercury